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    DENVER — You are what you tweet. Scroll Deion Sanders’ timeline and it provides messages that are uplifting, encouraging and confusing. Sanders dispenses advice on pursuing dreams, believing, staying positive and remaining disciplined. Intertwined in those messages, Sanders makes and takes things personally. As one of the greatest defenders ever to play football, it is natural for him to ...

      The quarterback pecking order for the 2025 NFL draft still seems fluid going into this upcoming college football season, with Georgia's Carson Beck, Colorado's Shedeur Sanders and Texas' Quinn Ewers getting the most preseason buzz. 

      DETROIT — The shakeup in college football is having an impact on the NFL draft. Now that college players can make money on their name, image and likeness, without losing their eligibility, there isn't the same urgency to leave for the pros. Many NFL evaluators say that has impacted the draft, which wrapped up Saturday, in some cases diluting the caliber of players available in the later ...

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      LEXINGTON, Ky. — Still less than two weeks removed from a Rupp Arena coronation that caught the attention of the entire college basketball world, Mark Pope has been a busy man. Meeting with recruits and their families. Showing potential transfers around Keeneland. Spreading the gospel of Kentucky basketball on national TV shows. Driving to and from Blue Grass Airport. Making phone calls. Oh, ...

      DURHAM, N.C. — Graham Barton became Duke’s first player selected in the NFL draft in three years and the program’s third first-round pick in the last 10 drafts. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers selected Barton in Thursday night’s first round, securing him with the No. 26 overall pick. Barton, a 6-5, 313-pound offensive lineman, started games in all four seasons of his Duke career, beginning in 2020 ...

      PITTSBURGH — The Steelers went back to the offensive line for the second year in a row when they used their No. 1 pick on Washington tackle Troy Fautanu. It is the first time in franchise history the Steelers have drafted an offensive lineman in the first round in back-to-back years. Fautanu (6-foot-4, 317 pounds) gives them a player who will allow Broderick Jones, last year’s top choice, to ...

      SEATTLE — There was no trade for the Seahawks on Thursday night. Instead, the Seahawks saw a player regarded as the best defensive lineman in the draft fall into their lap — Texas’ Byron Murphy II — and decided to take him with their first pick in 2024 draft at No. 16 overall. Murphy was just the second defensive player taken after the first 14 were all offensive players, a surprising ...

      DETROIT — Former Michigan quarterback J.J. McCarthy, so often described by analysts the last few months as the most polarizing at his position in this year’s NFL draft, finally knows his NFL destination. McCarthy, who helped lead Michigan to the 2023 national championship and was 27-1 as a two-year starter, was selected by the Minnesota Vikings with the No. 10 overall pick in the three-day ...

      SEATTLE — Michael Penix Jr.’s wait is complete. The 2023 Maxwell Award winner and former Washington quarterback finally knows where he’s going to begin his NFL career. The 2023 Heisman runner-up, Penix went to Atlanta Falcons with the eighth pick of the first round, becoming the fourth quarterback off the board in the 2024 NFL draft on Thursday. He’s the second quarterback in Washington ...

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